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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 1983
Filed:
Oct. 19, 1981
Thomas L De Fazio, Watertown, MA (US);
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A one-stage remote center compliance device having full translational and rotational compliance including: first and second spaced monolithic members, one adapted for connection with a supporting device, the other for connection with an operator member, the single stage including at least three discrete elements spaced about the axis of the RCC device and disposed along conically-disposed radii from a focus for interconnecting the members, each element being axially compressible and laterally deformable for providing both rotational and translational compliance about a remote center of compliance external to the RCC device and spaced from the focus.